Rural Skills

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Rural Skills
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What is different about this course?

• Practical involvement
• Real workplace activities
• Preparing you for work employability skills

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Handouts and exercises

• Handouts have key information and activities
• Questions are designed to make you think hard
  not tests!
• Answers are often much fuller than you are
  expected to give

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What are rural skills?

• Write down what you think is meant by the term
  rural skills.

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Land-based Industries an Introduction

• Exploring different industries in the land-based
  sector
• Find out if any of the jobs are for you

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Estate maintenance an Introduction

• Learn the tasks and jobs that are important for
  maintaining the land.
• All practical

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Employability Skills for Land-based Industries

• This will be part of everything you do
• More explanation later!

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Plant Units

• Learn about soft landscaping and crop production
  by getting involved!

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Animal Units

• Learn about animal handling and husbandry by
  getting involved!

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Group Activity

• What does employable mean?
• Why is being employable important?
• What personal qualities does an employer look for
  in their workers?

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Employability Skills

• Timekeeping
• Attendance
• Understanding your roles and responsibilities in
  the workplace
• Planning and Preparing for work

• Working co-operatively with others
• Awareness of efficient resource use
• Health and Safety Awareness

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Group Activity

• What do you think might go wrong without planning
  and preparing for the following activities?
• A)Moving sheep from field to farm along a main
  road
• B)Painting the walls of a shed

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Ask yourself?

• What good comes out of being awkward, huffy and
  refusing to work with others?
• Does it make you feel any better?
• Does it gain you any respect?
• Is it worth it?

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Group Activity

• List what would you need to plant out bedding
  plants and water them in
• How could you be wasteful with any of these
  things and cost money for your boss?

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Safety Awareness

• Hazards
• Risk
• Minimising Risk

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Risk Assessment

• What are the hazards for this farrier?
• Are these low, medium or high risk hazards?
• What could be done/worn to reduce the risk of
  this hazard?

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Review and self-evaluation
Carry out practical work
Rate yourself against employability profile
Make an action plan With your tutors guidance
Reflect on where you Could get better